Political Science
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon
Valley
Marietje Schaake
An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's
steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done
to stop it
Over the
past decades, under the cover of “innovation,” technology companies have
successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from
governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police
surveillance. Cryptocurrency has wiped out the personal savings of millions and
threatens the stability of the global financial system. Spyware companies sell
digital intelligence tools to anyone who can afford them. This new
reality—where unregulated technology has become a forceful instrument for
autocrats around the world—is terrible news for democracies and citizens.
In The Tech
Coup, Marietje Schaake offers a behind-the-scenes account of how technology
companies crept into nearly every corner of our lives and our governments. She
takes us beyond the headlines to high-stakes meetings with human rights
defenders, business leaders, computer scientists, and politicians to show how
technologies—from social media to artificial intelligence—have gone from being
heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies. To reverse
this existential power imbalance, Schaake outlines game-changing solutions to
empower elected officials and citizens alike. Democratic leaders can—and
must—resist the influence of corporate lobbying and reinvent themselves as
dynamic, flexible guardians of our digital world.
Drawing on
her experiences in the halls of the European Parliament and among Silicon
Valley insiders, Schaake offers a frightening look at our modern tech-obsessed
world—and a clear-eyed view of how democracies can build a better future before
it is too late.
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